TRANSICIONS is made up of teaching staff from different areas of knowledge and departments of the University of Valencia: Didactics and School Organisation, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Sociology and Social Anthropology. It is formally attached to the Department of Didactics and School Organisation. All its members are staff of the Universitat de València or have obtained their doctorate there, although they all maintain contacts with teaching and research staff from other Spanish and foreign universities. It is a multidisciplinary group that has participated since 1996 in several works and researches, in which several members of the group have taken part.

TRANSICIONS has maintained and continues to maintain collaboration, through research contracts or collaboration agreements, with the Federation of Business Associations of Insertion Companies (FAEDEI), and the Spanish Association of Second Chance Schools, and has carried out commissioned work for Forem-PV, the UAFSE, the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, BankiaDualiza or Cedefop. The group has also participated in the organisation of regional and national meetings and conferences with professionals in the field of socio-labour insertion, and has organised two editions of international congresses and seminars on vocational training at the UV.

TRANSICIONS aims to understand the educational, organisational, evolutionary and psychosocial processes that affect and optimise transitions between the educational and productive system for young people and young adults, as well as people in vulnerable situations, with difficulties of socio-occupational integration and a history of school failure. The group is aware of the centrality of work in adult life, as well as the need to approach its study from multidisciplinary approaches in order to holistically address the understanding of the reality that interests and concerns us, and for this reason several members of the group collaborate in IUDESCOOP activities.

Its mission is to contribute, from the University, to identify the mechanisms that guarantee the rights to education and work, from the conviction of the relevant role they play in the promotion of social justice.

TRANSICIONS seeks to carry out empirical research in which the participants are also subjects of the research processes, hence a methodological approach in which qualitative methods are an important part and which allows, as far as possible, to interact with reality and also contribute to facilitate its transformation through the link it has and seeks between its research and the return of the results to professionals and entities that work in practice, as well as in making the results available to interlocutors with political responsibilities. Thanks to this dialogue, it evaluates its research to try to adjust it to the needs that arise and to the search for social change that it jointly pursues.

To this end, the TRANSICIONS group believes that it is advisable to seek funding for research work in public calls for proposals. The academic pillars on which its work is based can be traced in its publications: Emilia Serra, Francesca Salvà, Claudia Jacinto, María Teresa González, Juan Manuel Escudero, Michael W. Apple, Michael Eraut, Quim Casal, Philipp Gonon, Basil Bernstein, Robert Castel, Serge Paugam, Luc Boltanski and José Gimeno are some examples.